This machine was last overhauled in February 1955, and last turned out Crepe silk, probably dress material.
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Captured bolts for a pressure cooker on an industrial scale.
This is part of the oldest section of factory, one that hasn’t had a roof in a long time and all usable equipment has been extracted. The machines pictured would spin sliced beets in boiling water… it was a sealed system before someone cut holes on sides of each unit.
This sign was important when trains ran the length of the elevator.
One of the early automated painting booths in the paint plant line.
The historic entrance of the mill, alongside the (relatively) new Great Western offices.
One of the machines left over in the underground magnetic separation plant.
Every elevator has sets of these conveyor switches. Grain comes down through the top chute and the bottom chute rotates to move the flow onto various belts around the plant by gravity. The cross belt is another switch and the bridge belt brings the flow to the other half of the elevator.
Giant paint mixers.